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Brooklyn’s embattled Boys and Girls High School is making big enrollment gains, city schools boss Carmen Fari?a said Tuesday.
Speaking on a visit to welcome new principal Grecian Harrison to her first year leading the struggling school, Fari?a said Harrison already managed to grow preliminary enrollment to 412 students for the school year that began Sept. 8.
That’s far above the city’s forecast for about 269 students and up from 383 students in the previous year.
“Principal Harrison in a short period of time has really built a community where people want to work hard,” Fari?a said. “She’s building on what came prior, but opening the school with in an increase of students is really good.”
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Once called the “Pride of Bed-Stuy,” Boys and Girls has suffered enrollment declines, academic shortfalls and safety issues for years. And Mayor de Blasio has only mixed results to show for a series of high-profile efforts to fix the school.
Former Principal Michael Wiltshire fought with the city over how to turn the institution around and resigned in June while still facing disciplinary action for failing to report allegations of sexual harassment and student theft.
He didn’t return a request for comment.
But Boys and Girls’ new leader Harrison said she encouraged more students to enroll over the summer by recruiting families at city-run enrollment centers and neighborhood middle schools.
“My main goal for Boys and Girls is to continue to work hard on increasing enrollment,” said Harrison, a veteran educator who began working in city schools as a social studies teacher at Boys and Girls in 1994, before moving on to become a teacher and administrator at other schools.